Suze Nowak

Columnist and features writer

Suze's award-winning column Achtung Baby follows the trials and tribulations of a British mum living in Germany. After 10 years abroad, with a German husband and a five-year-old daughter who swaps nationalities on a daily basis to "help" her out, she can at last call the land of Glühwein, preposterously long words and remarkably clean public toilets her home.

Achtung Baby: Chocolate overload

By Suze Nowak, Dec 18, 2011

The German word that encompasses all things tooth-rotting is "Süßigkeiten". One word covers the lot, chocolate, biscuits, lollies and sweets.

Achtung Baby: A gigantic mumfail

By Suze Nowak, Dec 11, 2011

Rex Features If you've ever made the howling mistake of Googling an affliction you've been suffering from and spent ...

Achtung Baby: Santa's spies

By Suze Nowak, Dec 4, 2011

I do wonder sometimes whether my daughter navigates her way through life using echo-location. It's the only possible reason I can come up with for her incessant babble. Perhaps if she stops, even for a second, she'll run into a wall.

Achtung Baby: Spoiling a sick child

By Suze Nowak, Nov 27, 2011

Last week Finje crawled into our bed at 3am and lay her sweaty, burning little body between me and my husband. After declaring herself "a bit poorly" she proceeded to sneeze a ball of radioactive looking snot over my favourite M & S pyjamas.

Achtung Baby or Channelling your inner child

By Suze Nowak, Nov 20, 2011

Finje is five. Should she chance upon a muddy puddle she can barely contain her desire to take a running jump with a two-footed landing, sole object to make the biggest splash possible.

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